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Advanced Node.js Development

You're reading from   Advanced Node.js Development Master Node.js by building real-world applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788393935
Length 592 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andrew Mead Andrew Mead
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
1. Getting Set Up 2. MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 1 FREE CHAPTER 3. MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 2 4. MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 3 5. Real-Time Web Apps with Socket.io 6. Generating newMessage and newLocationMessage 7. Styling Our Chat Page as a Web App 8. The Join Page and Passing Room Data 9. ES7 classes 10. Async/Await Project Setup 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

Using async/await features in promises


Now, before we actually use async/await, we're going to go ahead and run through an example that just uses promises. We're going to use techniques we already know to set up a little example project. Now, when people hear about async/await, they think that they need to forget everything they know about callbacks and promises, and that is not true. Async/await is not a third option; it is more like an enhancement for promises. We're going to go through an example using just regular old promises, things you already know how to do. Then we're going to see how async/await can enhance that code. So, to kick things off, we do need a place to put all of this. I'm going to make a brand new project on my Desktop, async-await.

We can crack that open in our editor and make sure to crack it open in your terminal as well. Now, the goal here is to just make a very simple project. We're not going to need any Node modules for this one and we are just going to need a...

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